Cover news reporter Xun Chao
On the evening of November 19, the 32nd China Science Fiction Galaxy Awards Ceremony was held online. Among them, the post-95s network writer Tianrui Shuofu's novel "We Live in Nanjing" won the "Best Network Science Fiction Award" of this year's Galaxy Awards, which is also another work that won the Galaxy Award after "Death on Mars".
"We Live in Nanjing" tells the story of Bai Yang, a senior high school student living in Nanjing, who accidentally contacted the half summer living in Nanjing in 2040 through radio, and learned that the earth after 2040 was eroded by nature, the earth was in danger and only half a summer survived, so he resolutely joined hands with it to start a difficult and exciting journey of Nanjing people to save the earth across time and space.
As one of the representative writers of "hardcore science fiction" novels, Tianrui Shuofu's famous work "Death on Mars" won the "Best Network Literature Award" at the 30th China Science Fiction Galaxy Awards, and was shortlisted for the "Top Ten Chinese Online Novels Ranking" in the "2019 China Internet Literature Ranking". The new work "We Live in Nanjing" once again upgrades the urban and life-oriented plot design in the creation, and describes the science fiction novel with a very romantic atmosphere through a two-line narrative.
In order to create this novel, Tianrui Shufu also went to Nanjing twice to collect wind. "I went twice, visited friends in Nanjing, learned about the local dialect, food, and landmarks over there, and a lot of things." Talking about the reason for choosing Nanjing as the background, Tianrui said frankly, "It was a temporary whim, I thought that the place was good, and the name was very good, and then I wrote it." ”
The earliest inspiration for Tianrui Shuofu's creation of "We Live in Nanjing" was born in 2017. "At that time, Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" was on fire, and after I read it, I felt that this theme was good, and I thought that I could also write one, and I had the prototype of such a story. At the beginning, the story form is still very vague, there is no strong and more detailed setting, that is, a tone is set, and the two young protagonists save the world. Then I put the idea aside and started writing something else, and it wasn't until last year that I picked it up again. ”
That is, by the time Ray picked up the story again, it was already in shape. "My brain thinks whenever and wherever I am, and a lot of stories are formed this way. At the beginning there is an idea, an emotion, but it will not be written immediately, put aside, let it ferment there, slowly a year or two years pass, and then pick it up when it is fermented and mature, it is a complete story. ”
Including the character of the characters in the book, it is also formed by a kind of "unconscious". "Just like when you write an essay for the college entrance examination, that is, when you write the college entrance examination language paper, the paper is sent down to look at the language composition topic first, and when you read it, you will not write it immediately, you will write from the beginning." But when you write about the essay question, you already have it in your head. For Tianrui Speaking, any creation is not easy, "After all, it is a realistic background thing, and there are still many places to pay attention to." I didn't live in Nanjing, so when I wrote, I was flipping through the map, and then measuring how far this place needed to get to that place, how long it took me, what kind of transportation to use, considering whether the subway was more convenient, or the bus was convenient, and I did this thing every day. ”
dialogue:
Cover News: What references did you have before writing this book?
Tianrui said: How to say it, the radio through time and space such a setting is actually not rare, many books have it, I wrote modern, in fact, many readers also told me that many works have this kind of setting, such as the Korean drama "Signal", but I have not seen it. In fact, it is very important not to have seen it, I can't go to see it, the reader can go to see it. Because writing is something better and better, you will unconsciously learn its merits and then integrate it into your own work, if you do it well, it may be a plus, but if you do it well, you may destroy your own good design.
Cover News: Before creating "Titans No Voice", because the reader guessed the ending, he would make some changes.
Tianrui Said: Right. This is a very obvious, once the outline is set, the middle can not be changed randomly, if you change it, it is easy to change and collapse, and then destroy the integrity of the whole story. So even if I know that there are works of the same type, or better works, I can't look at them, and if I look at them, I can't help but want to absorb the excellent advantages of them. But once you do that and you don't control it well, it's easy to break the outline, and that ruins the story. I'm writing any book and I'm deliberately not looking at anything that has something to do with it, or something of the same type, and that's not something to read.
Cover News: Are you a sci-fi enthusiast?
Tianrui: I should be a fan of science fiction movies and a fan of online literature.
Cover News: As a direct participant in online science fiction, how do you feel about science fiction prefixed with "net text"?
Tianrui said: My attitude is that there is no strict definition of online science fiction, and it is no problem to count it as science fiction. I think as long as it meets the definition of science fiction, it can be considered science fiction, without the need to distinguish between hard, soft, hardcore, core, no need for these prefixes, no need for these definitions, no need for these definitions.
Cover News: Do you have a definition of science fiction yourself?
Tianrui said: If you must classify science fiction, it is better to divide Mahayana science fiction and Hinayana science fiction, write the big world called Mahayana science fiction, write the small world called Hinayana science fiction, this is not good, there is no contempt chain, how good, a group of harmony, harmony, hard and soft out, that hard science fiction also despises soft science fiction, you divide a hard core, non-core, as if the core is more difficult, the non-core is simpler, the contempt chain is not the same, you divide the Mahayana, Hinayana is always better.
Cover News: Is there a difference between science fiction and online text?
Tianrui Said: Science fiction is an imported product, it is popular literature. As popular literature, there is no difference between science fiction and online literature, and the only difference is the difference in carriers. What is the difference between science fiction and online literature as popular literature? In fact, there is no difference, the only difference is that the carrier is different, but one is on the paper media, one is on the Internet, which is the difference.
Cover News: Is there a difference in quality?
Tianrui said: The difference in quality does not lie in these two, the style itself has no advantages or disadvantages, but in the level of the person who wrote this thing. Because you write online articles, there are high levels, there are low levels, you write print media, publish science fiction, there are also high levels, there are low levels. This is the level of the author himself, and there is nothing between the two genres.
Cover News: Everyone defines novels posted on the Internet as online literature, and can we see the gap in quality?
Tianrui said: I can see that the gap is determined by the production model between the two, because you want to publish on the paper media side, at least through the editor's heavy screening. For example, 1,000 people go to the magazine to contribute to the magazine, to the publishing house, only one or two people stand out and can publish, that is to say, can be in the magazine, or can be presented to the public in the paper media, is already an excellent work after layers of selection. But the network text is not the same, the network text has no threshold, it is an individual can be sent, the fish and dragons are mixed, and there are all kinds of works in it. However, when they compare, in fact, the part of the person who writes the tip of the pyramid on the side of traditional science fiction is compared with the overall network text, and of course you will feel that the average level on that side is higher. But if there is also a threshold set on the side of the network text, you look at it again, and the pyramid tip is taken out, it may not be the same thing.
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